
Contracts Specialist (part-time contract)
- Houston, TX
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Advise project managers on contract strategy and ensure contract management throughout the project life cycle:
- Prepares and consolidates highly complex analysis of contract conditions, issues, as well as risks and opportunities, and develops associated contractual strategy.
- Aligns contract management plan to the project plan.
- Functions as a business partner for project managers.
- Manages relations with external partners and stakeholders.
- Ensures contract management all along the project on all topics.
- Monitors and leads contract conformance throughout project execution.
- Anticipates and mitigates contractual risks and opportunities.
- Leads and coordinates change management across the project.
- Responsible for the full life cycle of change management.
- Manage the interface between the Project and other Legal functions.
- Ensures compliance with internal policies, standards, processes and the like.
- Responsible for the delivery of Contract services and strategy from early projects phase until contract close outs, including but not limited to the following:
- Provide the principal contract support and lead all contract management activities for the Project, including Client contracts, Partnership arrangements (JV, Consortium).
- Protect and pursue T.EN's interests and contractual rights.
- Maintain T.EN's liability exposure under strict control.
- Position is fully assigned to a project or may assist two or more projects in parallel, dependent on size and complexity.
- Initial mobilization based in TEN or partner home office in Houston.
- Large onshore project experience, multiple fabrication sites globally.
- May be managed solely by TEN or in partnership with other parties.
- University Level Education (Bachelors Degree, BAC...).
- Proven knowledge and experience in Contract Management in the Energy or related industry.
- Effective written and verbal communication in English.
- Ability to manage complexity in claims management.
- Hands on knowledge and experience in schedule analysis methodologies and Extension of Time claims.
- Good understanding of Project Management, Planning, Risk Management and Cost.
- Possess strong communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to hold open and direct dialogue with stakeholders.
- High level of integrity and ethics.
- Interpersonal skills, ability to adapt and manage change
- Proactive, committed and solution/results driven, autonomous and Organizational Skills/Time Management
- Deliver high quality work in a professional manner.
- Good team player
- Possess strong negotiation skills and capacity to influence.
- We challenge our biases and embrace diversity of thought.
- No one has all the knowledge and solutions, collectively we do.
- We foster a caring environment where people are respected, comfortable to share and be heard.
- We promote active listening for effective decisions and action.